Archives for December 30, 2019

“With Lawrence in Arabia,” a 1927 silent film featurette about T.E. Lawrence. This newsreel-style film, which Lowell Thomas showed to audiences as part of a lecture about Lawrence’s exploits, played a major role in introducing him to the general public. A fictionalized character freely based on Thomas is played by Arthur Kennedy in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“She was too haughty to deny herself that luxury of the proud-minded—a sense of justice.”

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Summer Will Show (courtesy of Levi Stahl)